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Defensive star in Green Bay – he had seven interceptions for touchdowns – played in five Vince Lombardi league groups and one in Dallas.
By Richard Goldstein
Herb Adderley, the Hall of Fame cornerer who played for Green Bay Packer’s groups from coach Vince Lombardi who won five N. F. L. championships of the 1960s, adding the first two Super Bowls, and then helped lead the Dallas Cowboys to their first Super Bowl victory, he died on Friday.
The Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, announced his death. The main points were not provided, but the Packers said he had recently been hospitalized.
When Adderley came to Packers education camp in 1961 as a first-round draft pick and former Big Ten running back at Michigan State, he hoped to replace Packer stars Jim Taylor as fullback and Paul Hornung as fullback, and in that he converted. Entering the annual Thanksgiving game between the Packers and the Detroit Lions, he hadn’t run a scrum all season.
But Lombardi, who thought of Adderley as the team’s most productive natural athlete, nevertheless gave him a chance in the defensive lineup, inserted Adderley, who had played some defense in college, as a left cornerer at the time the Packers’ cornerer, who was already at a numerical disadvantage, lost cornerer Hank Gremminger to injury.
“I’m in shock,” Adderley told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel much later. “I’m shaking and nervous. I didn’t have time to ask anyone questions. I didn’t know what I was doing. “
Still, he intercepted a pass in Jim Ninowski’s last quarter of the Lions, helping the Packers to a 17-9 victory. In December, the Packers won their first NFL Lombardi championship, beating the Giants, 37-0.
Adderley played nine seasons with the Packers and three with the Cowboys. He had speed and a decent enough length for a part of the corner of his time, at 6 feet 1 and 205 pounds, and intercepted 48 regular-season passes, returning seven for touchdowns. He hit a 60-yard interception to score when the Packers defeated the Oakland Raiders in Super Bowl II.
Adderley decided on the N. F. L. team, betting on a defense that included Willie Wood Hall of Fame members in security, Willie Davis in the end, Henry Jordan as tackler and Ray Nitschke and Dave Robinson as supporter (Wood died in February at age 83 and Davis died in April at age 85).
Adderley was also a wonderful return to kick-off: he pushed back the ball for 103 yards against the Baltimore Colts and made another kick start for a 98-yard score against the Los Angeles Rams.
He was one of the few black players in the Packers when he joined the team. When the Packers faced the Washington Redskins in a 1961 preseason game in Columbus, Georgia, where the hotels were separated, the entire team remained in Fort Benning, an army as Adderley recalled, Lombardi said, “I would be here with all my players to be separated elsewhere. “
Adderley said the owners would not hire black Packers players when he was a rookie, letting him live with Davis and ball bearer Elijah Pitts in what he called a “cabana” outside Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Lombardi met with genuine real estate agents after that, Adderley recalled, and “the following year it was different. “We had decent accommodation. It opened many doors for blacks and black families, many of which had nothing to do with the Packers.
Herbert Allen Adderley was born in Philadelphia on June 8, 1939, the son of Charles and Reva Adderley; his father, a factory machinist. Herb, a multisport athlete at Northeast High School.
Playing for three seasons at Michigan State, he gained more than 800 yards on the court and a threat of passing. The Packers picked him as number 12 in the NFL draft.
The Packers traded Adderley to the Cowboys in September 1970. I joined Mel Renfro as a Hall of Fame cornerback when Dallas lost to the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl after the 1970 season, then defeated the Miami Dolphins. in the next Super Bowl (One member of this Colts team, wide receiver Jimmy Orr, died Tuesday. )
Adderley retired after the 1972 season with 1,046 yards on interception returns and 3,080 yards on kickoff returns.
In October 1984, he attended the Packers’ first large-scale assembly for the 1966 team, which beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I. And he clarified that his loyalty lay.
In recounting this compilation in “Distant Replay” (1985), through former Packer guard Jerry Kramer and sportsman Dick Schaap (the sequel to his e-book “Instant Replay”), Adderley said: “As for me Regardless, I’ve never played for the Dallas Cowboys. I’m the only one in the country who has a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring and I don’t wear it. “
Adderley’s survivors come with his wife, Brenda, and a daughter, dr. Toni Adderley, a dentist, whom he had with his first wife, Barbara Adderley.
After his days at the game, Adderley owned a Philadelphia-based company that tended cable television lines across the country.
He is the leading plaintiff in a 2007 federal lawsuit opposed to the N. F. L. The players’ union filed a complaint on behalf of 2,056 retired players who claimed that the union did not unduly accompany them in marketing arrangements. The lawsuit resulted in a $28. 1 million ruling opposed to the union; After the verdict was appealed, the retirees settled a payment of $26. 25 million.
Robinson, the Packers’ left supporter of the 1960s, once recalled Adderley’s combativeness, which can happen to face an opposing coach.
“Herb hasn’t forgotten anything,” Robinson told the Packers’ website. “He took it all personally. Once in Baltimore, Don Shula yelled at him from the sideline after an entrance, and Herb told Shula to put on a uniform and hit the road.
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